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New rail links needed if Heathrow Airport expands, London Assembly warned

Solutions include extending the Elizabeth line to Staines - dubbed an ‘absolute game-changer’ for access to the airport from Surrey and south-west London

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Sadiq Khan accused of 'backtracking' on promise to ban gambling adverts from the Tube

Mayor says he wants to ‘hear more detail about the Government’s plans in this area’, despite promising to take action himself four years ago

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Sadiq Khan unveils £7m fund in bid to clean up London's rivers

Funding comes as the mayor hosts a roundtable summit with Thames Water and other agencies - but is criticised for failing to include the London Assembly

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Sadiq Khan says he wants to take control of Oxford Street because council has 'failed' the area

Mayor wants to part-pedestrianise the ‘tired’ street and doesn’t want Labour-run authority to be ‘obstacle to progress’

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Levy on London stadium concerts could support grassroots music venues

In a report on the capital’s nightlife, the London Assembly has also told Sir Sadiq Khan to explore expanding the Night Tube

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Silvertown tunnel: TfL spends £2m on bike bus that cyclists 'don't want to use'

Concerns emerge about ‘hostile’ location of bus stop and whether cargo bikes will be banned from shuttle bus

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Sadiq Khan urged to scrap Silvertown and Blackwall Tunnel tolls as 37,000 sign petition

With more than 37,000 signatures, the petition is said to be the largest ever formally received by the London Assembly

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Sadiq Khan details his plan to build 6,000 rent-controlled homes for 'everyday heroes'

Londoners with household incomes of less than £67,000 per year would be eligible for the homes, with rent increases potentially pegged to wage rises

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Fact check: UK Government has not announced free bus fares for immigrants

The post from the TikTok user comes amid the Government raising the single bus fare cap to £3 from £2.

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'Prostitute's cautions leaves sex workers stigmatized for the rest of their lives'

The London Assembly has asked Sadiq Khan to prevent prostitutes from facing ‘systematic stigmatisation’

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London Assembly urges Sadiq Khan to help asylum seekers with transport costs

Reform UK’s Alex Wilson said ‘British taxpayers will reach a limit when they feel they are being taken advantage of’

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'Green hypocrisy!' Sadiq Khan in row over Heathrow Airport expansion

Mr Khan was accused of failing to show ‘climate leadership’, while the Labour mayor said the Green Party was guilty of hypocrisy over renewable energy

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Black performance artists face discrimination in nightlife licensing, City Hall told

Councils and police officers are following a ‘racist narrative’ in their licensing decisions, Black Lives in Music told the London Assembly

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TfL faces renewed call for action to boost safety on dangerous section of A10

TfL has been urged to install more speed cameras along the road following the death of 28-year-old Laura Sone-Demetrious in January this year

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Tributes paid to Nicky Gavron, London clean air visionary and Ken Livingstone's deputy mayor

Memorial service expected to honour Labour’s City Hall stalwart and climate change ‘pioneer’

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Calls for 'legal regulation' of drugs amid rise in synthetic opiod overdoses

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan urged to call on Government to legally regulate drug-taking

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Greens' Sian Berry quits London Assembly just three days after re-election

Ms Berry’s resignation means that the party’s mayoral candidate Zoe Garbett will take her place at City Hall

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Watch: Latest London Assembly results as Sadiq Khan wins historic third term as mayor

Sadiq Khan has won the race to be the city’s next mayor after the last results in the mayoral race was declared.

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Capital's smaller parties plan 'historic breakthrough' on London Assembly

The Greens, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK all believe they are on course to make significant gains at City Hall

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What is the London Assembly? Elections to take place in May

The London Assembly holds 25 members but what exactly do they do?

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Susan Hall 'pay-per-mile' social media image slammed by Labour as 'fake news'

The Tories also claimed in a recent party political broadcast that Sadiq Khan has ‘secret plans to impose new charges for every single mile you drive’

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OPINION - Sadiq Khan plans to put loos on the Tube — but what took so long?

Well done, the Greens. If credit is due anywhere for the inclusion of £3 million in the Mayor’s budget for public lavatories at Tube stations, it should go to Caroline Russell. She’s the leader of the Greens in the London Assembly, and she’s been banging on about this for years.…

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Met Police attend fewer than half of shoplifting reports in London

Business owners feel like shoplifting has 'all but been decriminalised', a City Hall politician has warned

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Stratford MSG Sphere: Sadiq Khan rejects plans to build version of Las Vegas venue in London

London mayor concerned about scale of light pollution and development's green credentials

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Hate crimes against London Hindus may be being under-reported

London Assembly member Krupesh Hirani said there was a need for improved transparency from the Met Police

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